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Now, a White House that did not consider America’s (exceptionally law-abiding and nonviolent) undocumented population to be a top-tier national security threat would have less difficulty solving the migrant “problem.” For example, ankle bracelets are a cheap and largely effective means of ensuring that asylum seekers do not abscond into the country while they await their hearings as free residents of the U.S. Further, an administration that was willing to trade a pathway to citizenship for America’s longtime undocumented residents, in exchange for reforms to aslyum law, would likely be able to get a significant number of congressional Democrats onboard. Alas, given the president’s commitment to halting America’s “ceaseless importation of third-world foreigners,” the crisis at the border is a genuinely difficult one for him to solve. … [Read more...] about 5 Ways Trump’s New Plan to Seal the Border by Putting Tariffs on Mexico Could Backfire

Trump is demanding that Mexico increase security at its border with Guatemala, crack down on gangs that ferry migrants across the border, and take in all of the asylum seekers that would otherwise make a claim in the U.S. The threat comes at a time when border crossings are surging. In May, U.S. border officers detained more than 144,000 migrants, the highest monthly level since 2006. … [Read more...] about Trump’s Mexico Tariff Threat: Everything We Know

The Mexican official and the U.S. official said the countries are negotiating a sweeping plan to overhaul asylum rules across the region, a move that would require Central Americans to seek refuge in the first foreign country they set foot upon after fleeing their homeland. Under such a plan, the United States would swiftly deport Guatemalan asylum seekers who set foot on U.S. soil to Mexico. … [Read more...] about Trump’s Mexico Tariffs Might Actually Work

Facts First: Trump was wrong every time. A March 27 official progress update sent to CNN from the US government's kCustoms and Border Protection said that 147 miles of new wall had been built, fewer than Trump claimed on March 23 (over 150 miles). Similarly, the April 3 official progress update said that 151 miles had been built -- fewer than Trump claimed on March 25 (164 miles), March 30 (161 miles) and April 1 (161 miles). And the April 10 official update said that 158 miles had been built, fewer than Trump claimed on April 6 (161 miles) and April 10 (about 168 miles). … [Read more...] about Fact check: A list of Trump’s general false claims from March 16 through May 3

Trump made 71 false claims about the pandemic and travel. He made 37 about coronavirus testing. This includes one of his most infamous and most egregious false claims of the crisis -- his March 6 declaration that "anybody that wants a test can get a test" -- and 12 renditions of perhaps his most absurd pandemic false claim, the insistence that the Obama administration left him bad or old tests for this new virus for which there could not have been a test until Trump's presidency. … [Read more...] about Fact check: Breaking down Trump’s 654 false claims over 14 weeks during the coronavirus pandemic